1940
Attempts to get some results from the many ideas for class activities hatched at Reunion have, to the moment of writing, borne no fruit. It is hoped that, by the time this reaches you in print, a couple of football weekend gatherings will be announced to you through a class mailing. Come another fall we'll have the plans going earlier. Regular gatherings in key cities for the -winter are also being scheduled, following the New York pattern so ably started last spring by Bud Hewitt. We have in mind at the moment Boston, Cleveland, Chicago and Los Angeles, as the beginning of permanent organization of the class regionally.
Word was received during the month of the listing of Sam Carver, missing in action over Kawauhi, Japan since April 15, 1945, as killed in action. He is the last of the class' missing list, and brings our total of war dead to thirty two. Details will appear in the In Memoriam section next month.
We now have a file of Reunion pictures, including the official one, which are being put together in album form for perusal at future class functions. Don Rainie, Bud Hewitt and Les Nichols are solely responsible for the samples of photographic art now in hand. There were many more who had cameras busily working that weekend, and we'd like to have prints of all of them. How about having some prints made for the class and sending them along, you camera toters?
Post-Reunion: Woody Caltaldo wants to go on record in strong objection to the August column's description of him as "prosperous cigar-chewing Woody and super limousine." He says:
The prosperous look of a super limousine should never be confused with a father's son. I do not and never have chewed a cigar. I do not even bite off the end. I smoke my cigars like a gentleman. Furthermore, I am now in dutch with all the young ladies catalogued in my campaign book, who never even suspected that I smoke cigars. Please inform Hewitt that I shall be expecting either his lawyers or his seconds, for this incident is definitely traitorous in view of his eager acceptance from me of a precious White Owl. P. S. Neither should cigarsmoking be associated with prosperity—plenty of bums smoke them.
Chap Wentworth reported in this month, for the first time since his Navy discharge. He's vice president in charge of production for Longren Aircraft in Torrance, Calif., making aluminum specialties. Chap had a Dartmouth group at his home in Palos Verdes recently, including among those attending Dave Boyle and Jack Rourke of our California classmates. Bill Halsey, Hanover representative for the summer, encountered Hal Sommar, Dr. HarryKoch, Lt. Cmdr. Thurs Perry, and Dave Leake at various times around Hanover. Bill returned to Harvard, architecture and the ski team in September. Those little cards from the Inn indicate that Ed Smith, Bob Rodday, and George Mahoney were also part of the August nostalgic brigade.
Chet Garrison, Ohio State's newest English instructor, reports a meeting with DickGoulder, in Columbus. Dick is another of '40's Cleveland contingent, and is vice president of International Molded Plastics there, in addition to being possessor of a new home in Shaker Heights. Chet also found Ted Gates returning to Harvard for an M.A. in eccy, Van Cleve helping hold a New York law firm together, and Tommy George baching it while his wife and son were off visiting her parents in England.
Indian Drum gleanings, forwarded from Rainie, include the following: Bob Marshall with Mason, Bruce and Girard, forestry consultants, in Portland, Oregon; Bob Armstrong news editor of Electrical Merchandising for McGraw-Hill, and holding down a precious apartment in Hartsdale (Westchester to you west-of-the-Hudsons); Bill Williamson also with McGraw-Hill, in Philadelphia; RalphPalmer and Joe Adams at Harvard Law, third and second year respectively; Don Tenney at Stanford in graduate business studies; IkeWeed with a manufacturer's agent in Washington; Gordon Stokes studying medicine at Minnesota on a fellowship in internal medicine; Ed Bay,mer an industrial engineer with U. S. Rubber, Charleston, W. Va.; PowellHolbein selling for Colonial Beacon out of Albany; Jack Little in public relations for Cluett, Peabody (reported to be of no help whatever as a shirt locater); 800 Hayden back in Baltimore with J. E. Grainer Co., consulting engineers; Cliff Holmes teaching at Fort Bliss, Texas as a civilian; Earl Hotchkiss poultry farming up in Bridgton, Maine; Copper Nye a research analyst for Federal Reserve Bank of Boston; John McDonald with the VA in Boston; and Fred Pillsbury a Harvard Law graduate in June.
Add these items from Hanover: Jim Carpenter with a wholesale distributor in Baltimore; insurance looking good to Ted Ellsworth in Dubuque, Hall McAllister in Hartford, BudRaymond in Chicago, Greek Mahoney in Indianapolis and Jack Faunce in Cleveland; Lt. Cmdr. Fred Ewing out with the atom bomb task force; Bob Kelley in accounting for G. E. at Schenectady; Dr. Jack Schleicher resident physician at Mary Hitchcock and the VA hospital at White River; Dr. Sey Wheelock resident at thg Children's Hospital, Denver; and Bob Skinner set up for winter at Alta Lodge, Utah.
The 1940 affiliates: Al Eiseman and Alberta Friedenberg of Riverdale and Venice, Italy, married in New York; Mel Wax and Charlotte Speight of Elmira, New York married in Hanover; Constance Nye of Brockton, Mass., engaged to Scott Dillingham-, Powell Holbein and Dorothy Boschen of West Orange, N. J., married in Orange September 7; Greta van Antwerp of Cincinnati engaged to Jim Gibson (the Phi Delt one); Lillie Benedict of Covington, Kentucky engaged to Bob Lake-, Sid Craig and Virginia Wells were married September 26 at Evanston, Ill.; Bob Austin and June Smith of Webster, N. H., married September 7; and Betsy Monell Rainie, subject of some speculation at Reunion, joined the '40 group early in the morning of September 10. Don requests that all and sundry refrain from calling her "Butterball II" even if she looks like her old man, a request supported by threats which Don is returning to Cornell Law this fall to learn all about. It is our understanding that this applies particularly to one Chester Arthur Garrison, who found butterball one of the more attractive words yet discovered.
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Treasurer, 42 Congress St., St. Albans, Vt.
